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    Key Stage 1

    Guru Nanak Sikh Academy
    Key Stage 1 Curriculum Overview

    At Guru Nanak Sikh Academy, our Phonics and Early Reading is the starting point to build competent and lifelong readers. We teach reading through Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised; which is a systematic and synthetic phonics programme.

    Key Stage 1 Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2

    Year 1

    Writing Progression
    Map


    Reading Progression
    Map

    If all the world
    where
    Joseph Coelho
    Big Picture

     
    Halibut Jackson
    David Lucas
    Big Picture
    Beegu
    Alexis Deacon
    Big Picture
    Anna Hibiscus
    Atinuke
    Big Picture
    Moth
    Isabel Thomas and
    Daniel Egneus
    Big Picture
    The Jolly Postman
    Allan Alhberg
    Big Picture
    Pupils will be
    Writing a retell of
    the story.
    Pupils will be writing a
    descriptive paragraph
    for an outfit to sell in
    Halibut’s shop.
    Pupils will be writing
    an informational text
    by creating a
    guide to Earth.
    Pupils will be writing a
    letter of advice to
    Aunty Comfort from
    Anna Hibiscus
    Pupils will be writing a non
    chronological report on
    Moths.
    Pupils will be writing a
    narrative of an additional
    scene for
    The Jolly Postman.

    Year 2

    Writing Progression
    Map


    Reading Progression
    Map

    I Want my Hat
    Back
    Jon Klassen
    Rapunzel
    Bethan Woollvin
    Big Picture

    Augustus and his
    Smile
    Catherine Rayner
    Big Picture
    The Last Wolf
    Mini Grey
    Big Picture
    Ten Things I can
    do to Help my
    World
    Melanie Walsh
    Big Picture
    The Storm Whale
    Benji Davies
    Big Picture
    Lila and the Secret of
    Rain-
    David Conway and Jude Daly
    Big Picture
    Pupils will write a
    letter of complaint
    to the police fromthe point of view of
    a character.
    Pupils will retell a
    story with key element
    changes.
    pupils will write a
    letter from the
    perspective of the
    main character.
    Pupils to make a ‘top
    ten things to help the
    world’ information
    leaflet.
    Pupils to write a diary entry
    as the main character in the
    story.
    Pupils will write a non-fiction
    report about Kenya.